Late Monday they made it home neither wanted to go but duty called. Brennan opened her door; Booth carried the bags in while Brennan went to the kitchen.

"Bones what's for dinner? I'm starving; it's been a long time since breakfast."

Brennan grinned as she pulled the casserole dish from the freezer."Whose fault is that?"

"What? " Booth grinned at Brennan "What we did was so much better than eating lunch; I just wish we hadn't burned so many calories."

"I concur." Brennan's smile made Booth go crazy on the inside, and she knew it."How about macaroni and cheese?"

"Sounds great, but won't that take forever?"

"No, I made it before we left and froze it; all I have to do is bake it."

"Why all the planning ahead Bones? You don't normally do that."

"I told you I had other motives for this trip, the prior planning was in case I got lucky."

Booth grinned and put his arms around Brennan's waist kissing her. "What if you didn't get lucky?"

"I'd have dinner B."

"Which is?"

"A gallon of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream."

"It's a good thing you got lucky then."

"A very good thing."

"How much time do we have?"

"45 Minutes. Is that enough?"

"A plethora, let's go…."

Monday Brennan arrived at the lab in her car, Booth wanted to drive her, but she wanted to keep their secret a little longer, she was enjoying it too much. Brennan had just sat down with a coffee when Angela came in.

"Sweetie how was Chicago?"

Brennan put down her pen and looked up, Angela stopped in her tracks."Bren I haven't seen that smile on your face since Michael came here. Is he…? Did you and he…?"

"He wanted to but we didn't. Close my door."

Angela did as she was told and turned back to Brennan.

Brennan folded her hands on the desk top and sucked in breath. "When I got the invitation, I didn't want to go, but Booth…Booth said he'd be my 'escort or arm candy 'whichever term I preferred I agreed to go. We get there and I got swarmed by the president of the alumni association, she said something about me not being married, Booth came up behind me then and told the girls he was my boyfriend. " Angela' eyes got huge she started to squeal, Brennan held up a hand, "There's more can you hold it in until I'm done?"

Angela nodded. Brennan took a deep breath and continued."At the end of the night Booth walked me to our adjoin rooms, he turned to leave I asked him to stay; he went and checked out of his room and moved into mine. We didn't leave in less we had to, he's not going back to his apartment anymore in less he has Parker and that's only until Parker gets use to us being together." Brennan could see Angela was about to explode, smiling she said, "That's all." And put her hands over her ears to dampen the sound. She was surprised all the glass in the lab didn't break! Angela gave Brennan a bone crushing hug. "Sweetie, I'm so happy for the two of you. What made you decide to take the leap?"

"When Booth offered to go without me asking him to, I realized I kind of loved him." Angela raised an eyebrow. Brennan chuckled, "okay, I realized I always have loved him and then when we got there, Booth left me in the reception hall to get a drink when I got swamped I realized I don't like it when we're not together, I need Booth Ange."

Angela smiled and gave Brennan another hug. "One more question, was it good?"

"The best." Brennan smiled Angela skipped out of her office. "Hodgy, you owe me two new pairs of shoes. Cam, you owe me Friday off next week." Cam and Hodgins groaned, but gave Brennan a thumbs up.

Later that afternoon Booth came in.

"Bones, I think you're going to have to fix my back again!"

"What did you do this time, Booth?"

"Nothing, I think Angela hugged me way too tight!"

Brennan looked up and smiled," She's happy for us."

"I know I am too. Did you tell her everything?"

"All but the good stuff, that's between us."

"Good come here so I can do something, I've been wanting to do since you left this morning."

Brennan walked into Booth's arms, he kissed her deeply.